A Washington State University regent is calling on WSU Cougars, UW Dawgs, Eastern Washington University Eagles and University of Idaho Vandals to put up dollars to rebuild the Planned Parenthood Pullman Health Center, torched in a terrorist act early last month.

“We decided to do a $$ for $$ match to the university communities of students, faculty, administrators, alumni, regents/trustees of our Washington/Idaho schools to accelerate the rebuild,” Don Barbieri, retired CEO of West Coast Hotels, said in a Facebook message.

The Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, a charitable foundation, will match donations to what they are calling the University Matching Fund. The charity is a joint project of Barbieri and partner Sharon Smith, a former vice chair of Washington State Democrats. The Spokane-based Smith-Barbieri team is best known for such environmental causes as cleaning up the Spokane River.

The Planned Parenthood Pullman Health Center burns from arson fire on the morning of Sept. 4. The building was damaged beyond repair. A Washington State University Regent has begun a rebuilding campaign for the center, which serves WSU and the nearby University of Idaho. (KREM.com via AP)

“Sharon and I couldn’t stand on the sidelines as hundreds of thousands of dollars will now be needed to get the clinic reopened,” said Barbieri.

Donors will, he added, be sending a message: “Violence is not tolerated, and we are all in this together.”

A federal arson task force has joined Pullman police in investigating the terrorist arson. Police have a video of an individual throwing a flammable object through the window of the health center about 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 4.

The Pullman Health Center serves two close-together university communities, Washington State University and the University of Idaho, located about 10 miles away in Moscow.

Planned Parenthood has set up temporary digs with a tent in the center’s parking lot. The organization is able to dispense condoms, refill birth control prescriptions and dispense Plan B, the “morning after pill” that can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.

The Pullman Health Center sustained irreparable structural damage in the fire. Even after insurance, the cost of rebuilding the center and getting it back into operation is estimated at $250,000.

The arson at the health center came soon after an anti-Planned Parenthood protest in Spokane. State Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, likened the work of Planned Parenthood to Dr. Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., has posted a series of incendiary Tweets after the release of heavily edited videos, made undercover by an anti-abortion group, allegedly showing Planned Parenthood executives talking about selling human tissue for medical research. McMorris Rodgers voted last month to deny federal money to Planned Parenthood, which receives dollars for women’s health services unrelated to abortion.

“What kind of a country are we if we think @PPFA’s actions are acceptable?” asked one McMorris Rodgers tweet. “It has been two months since the first #PP videos surfaced and the public disgust has not subsided,” said another.

Although Pullman is in her district, McMorris Rodgers has not commented on the health center arson. She did make a generic statement against violence in a news release.